Open-cast mining, where coal is dug out of the ground through a giant, open pit, destroys habitats. South Africa has many of ...

This eerie town sits above a coal mine fire that has been continuously burning for well over half a century and has been ...

The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being pushed ...

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

LEBANON TWP. - The Lebanon Township Museum will host "Tracks Through Time: The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Then & Now" at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, at the museum at 57 ...

The coal seams there supply thermal coal (coal that's burnt to run electricity turbines) and higher quality anthracite coal, used locally for the production of steel and other products that are ...

A proposed trail linking Carbon and Schuylkill counties got a reboot this month, as stakeholders gathered for a kickoff meeting in Tamaqua. State Sen. Dave Argall said that a study was done 20 years ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

The major product carried on L&NE was anthracite coal. From the late 19th century until the 1950s, anthracite coal was the most popular fuel for heating homes and other buildings in the northern U ...

Many parts of the UK are smoke control areas where you cannot release smoke from a chimney or you can only burn authorised ...